Live-Action Saki Project Reveals Full Cast in Costume

The official website of the live-action project for Ritz Kobayashi‘s Saki manga revealed the full cast in costume on Thursday. The website had previously revealed on Thursday that Minami Hamabe would play protagonist Saki Miyanaga.

The full cast includes:

Minami Hamabe as Saki Miyanaga

Nana Asakawa as Nodoka Haramura

Aika Hirota as Yūki Kataoka

Mai Kikuchi as Koromo Amae

Rena Takeda as Kana Ikeda

Seika Furuhata as Hisa Takei

Anna Yamada as Mako Someya

Mariya Nagao as Tōka Ryūmonbuchi

Kyōka Shibata as Hajime Kunihiro

Ena Koshino as Jun Inoue

Rie Kaneko as Tomoki Sawamura

Mami Kamura as Mihoko Fukuji

Aya Yoshizaki as Miharu Yoshitome

Mizuki Hoshina as Sumiyo Fukabori

Yuzu Higuchi as Seika Bundō

Natsumi Okamoto as Yumi Kajiki

Ano as Momoko Tōyoko

Aguri Ōnishi as Satomi Kanbara

Marina Nagasawa as Kaori Senō

Mari Yamachi as Mutsuki Tsuyama

The live-action project will consist of a live-action series and a film. The series will consist of four episodes, as well as a television “special.” The series will premiere on MBS on December 4, and on TBS on December 6. The special will air on MBS on January 8, and on TBS on January 10. The film will open in Japan in February.

Yūichi Onuma is directing, while Hiroyuki Ishikawa is co-directing. Hayashi Mori is penning the script. T$UYO$HI (The BONEZ) is composing the music. Other staff members include:

Yen Press is publishing the original Saki manga in North America digitally, and it released the sixth volume on Tuesday. Yen Press describes the series:

Saki’s never been a big fan of mahjong. A lifetime of being forced to play with family at holidays (and losing her money as a consequence…) has left a foul taste for the game in her mouth. When she’s convinced, though, to play a game with her classmates, she discovers that not only has fending off her family left her with an uncanny ability for the game but, more surprisingly, that it can even be fun!

Is this revelation enough to cleanse Saki’s distaste for the game? Can her classmates convince her to join their club, or is there just too much baggage to make it worth her while?

If you’re looking for the number one mahjong manga out there, you’ve found it!

Kobayashi launched the manga in Square Enix‘s Young Gangan magazine in 2006, and Square Enix published the 15th compiled volume on March 25. The manga has since inspired five spinoff manga series. The manga is currently on break, and will return on December 2.

The original manga was adapted into a 25-episode television series in 2009, and a new television anime project titled Saki – The Nationals launched in 2014. The Saki Achiga-hen episode of side-A spinoff manga also inspired a television anime in 2012. The four-panel spinoff manga Saki Biyori also inspired an anime DVD last year.